A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more
A glorious combination of photography and cutting-edge technology - yet even while we can map migratory routes with geolocators, there is much still unknown. Large format.
The winner of this year's Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing is a meticulous, spirited diary observing the changing seasons from the perspective of an autistic teenager.
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As ravishing as it is fascinating: a history of botanical photography from Fox Talbot, via Edward Weston, Nob... read more
An extraordinary tale of patience and determination: Slaght has dedicated his life to save Blakiston's fish owl, a rare denizen of the taiga. His book is a revelation of the contemporary Rus... read more
Its second subtitle is "an adventurous history of botany". JG is a scientist and an historian of exploration (his "The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea" was excellent).
Part memoir of the author's relationship with his father and part natural and cultural history of the world's most mysterious fish. No human has ever seen eels reproduce and we don't underst... read more